The Ghost of Meaning

Derrida, Freud, Todorov: these three particularly modern thinkers from rather different fields of inquiry all converge upon a central concept: the uncanny. ' Of course, each of them approaches this focal point from the point of view of his particular discipline: philosophy (and literature), psychoanalysis, and literature itself. One would thus expect to encounter in their work three very different definitions of the uncanny, and indeed this is true to a certain

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